Timisoara water thrust

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A Timisoara water push was an organized resettlement within the Habsburg monarchy . In the 1750s, eleven so-called water thrusts were documented.

Under Maria Theresa , above all people who could not be brought directly to justice, including vagrants, prostitutes, poachers, smugglers or rebellious farmers, were brought down the Danube in ships and settled in the Banat , a historical region in Central Europe that is now in the states of Romania, Serbia and Hungary lies.

Between 1744 and 1768 a transport was carried out in spring and autumn and a total of 3,130 people were deported to Temesvár (Timișoara), a city in western Romania and the historical, economic and cultural center of the Banat.

See also

literature

  • Stephan Steiner: No return. Deportations in the Habsburg Monarchy in the early modern period and their European context , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2014 PDF
  • Dama, H. (2008). The Banat - (not) a “penal colony” of Maria Theresa? Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
  • Schünemann, K. (1932). The Viennese or Timisoara water thrust. Yearbook of the Vienna Hungarian Historical Institute. Second year. Budapest, 1, 199-219.
  • Steiner, SS Vienna-Timisoara and back. The water surge under Maria Theresa. Festschrift for Karl Vocelka's 60th birthday.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kulturraum-banat.de , Hans Dama: The Banat - (not) a “penal colony” of Maria Theresa?